Word: seemingly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...placing the sinking Sophomore on probation the authorities seem to defeat one of the major principles of educators. They forget that with a more mature perspective acquired in the last two years of college, the student is much better qualified to meet this latest wrinkle of higher education with a more proper appreciation...
Mellon: It doesn't seem to me to be a question of efficiency. It is a question of legislation before...
Announcements of the most authoritative character made it seem certain, last week, that the governors of Europe's great central banks of issue have told Gates W. McGarrah, now board chairman ol the New York Federal Reserve Bank, that they wish to elect him board chairman of the new Bank for International Settlements soon to be set up in Basle, Switzerland, as "the cash register of German reparations" (TIME, March...
When the War started by Princip shattered Imperial Austria, his province of Bosnia with its capital Serajevo entered the new kingdom of "Greater Serbia" or Jugoslavia, and the Great Assassin seemed from the point of view of his people a pure hero. They tore out a wall tablet erected in mourning for the assassinated Archduke, replaced it with a laudatory tablet to Princip, surmounting his name with laurel wreaths. Protests from abroad caused the Jugoslavian Government to order the Princip tablet covered with a thin layer of plaster, the official position being that it has been obliterated, while the populace...
Perhaps that unique "something" is comparable, in a way, with the classic calm of the near-by Charles River. And now I think I have hit upon it. Harvard somehow seems eternal. You wander through old Harvard Yard in the twilight, and the whispering trees seem to tell you that Harvard will survive forever, waiting in serene expectancy for youth to come and share its treasure of knowledge. You wander across the Oklahoma oval, and the thought crosses your mind that perhaps the next legislature will decide to cut off the university's finances and give the money...